Classification

Question 1

Give an example of a monera?

Answer 1

Any bacteria is found in this group, single called organism with no nucleus

Question 2

Give Alan example of a fungi.

Answer 2

Mushroom, moulds and yeasts- they are decomposers , breakdown living and dead material

Question 3

Give an example of a protist?

Answer 3

Algae is an example, can move around and live in water

Question 4

Name some differences between plants and animals?

Answer 4

Plants have chlorophyll for converting sunlight into food.

Plants cells have a cell wall to give them structure

Question 5

Describe 7 characteristics of living things.

Answer 5

1. Can reproduce
2. Consume energy
3. Produce waste
4. respond to their environment
5. Made up of cells

Question 6

Animals can be further divided into?

Answer 6

Based on skeleton

Vertebrates ( us) and invertebrates (crabs)

Question 7

Plants can be further divided into two groups.

Answer 7

Flowering and non flowering plants.

Question 8

Vertebrates an further divided into 5 groups what are they

Answer 8

Mammals
Amphibians
Birds
Fish
Reptiles

Question 9

Name the 5 kingdoms in the living world

Answer 9

Animals
Plants
Protests ( usually live in water - single called and have a nucleus)
Fungi
Monera (bacteria) cells that don’t have a nucleus

Question 10

Name an Australian plant that shows adoption to its environment

Answer 10

The Banksia

It’s seeds only open after a fire has passed

Question 11

Name an Australian animal that shows an adaption to its environment

Answer 11

Kangaroo
It’s always pregnant and only develops when conditions are good ( avoids droughts and low water)
Legs like springs conserve energy

Question 12

What does a food chain show

Answer 12

The flow of energy through feeding relationships- arrows how’s direction of energy flow

Question 13

What Is a decomposer

Answer 13

Decomposers recycles material from each feeding level of a food chain and return nutrients to thespians the atmosphere.

Question 14

What are scavengers

Answer 14

Opportunistic feeders that take food from each level of a feed web

Question 15

What is a producers?

Answer 15

Starts food web, producers carry out photosynthesis

Allow energy to enter the ecosystem

Question 16

What is photosynthesis

Answer 16

Is a chemical process that converts sunlight and carbon dioxide into energy ( sugar)

Carbon dioxide + water +sunlight = sugar + oxygen

Question 17

Where does photosynthesis occur in the plant

Answer 17

In the chloroplasts which contain the chemical chlorophyll which traps the sunlight

Question 18

Name some types of decomposers

Answer 18

Worms, fungi and some bacteria

Question 19

Why do biologists use classification keys

Answer 19

It allows biologists To organise and identify organisms

Question 20

Name a beneficial bacteria and fungi

Answer 20

Nitrogen fixing bacteria, they convert unreactive nitrogen into forms that plants can use
Bacteria in cheese production
Fungi is used in penicillin production

Question 21

How can human activities affect food webs

Answer 21

In some cases they can alter them drastically by

• hunting apex predators to extinction ( wolves)
• pollution ( heavy metals)
• over fishing